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Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Indo-China tensions: US interests & regional implications

On June 15, Sino-Indian tensions spiked with the killing of 20 soldiers during a confrontation in the Galwan Valley-- the mountainous region of Ladakh....

How to end prevailing deadlock in Afghanistan

The release of 3,000 Taliban prisoners by President Ashraf Ghani’s administration has generated optimism about the long-delayed intra-Afghan peace talks, with the Taliban announcing...

Covid-19: A multifaceted challenge

In the initial days of the First World War, it was believed that the war was going to be short and decisive. Many prominent...

A country marred by corruption

As a political activist, I could never imagine that one day political resistance would intermingle with corruption. In the Ayub era, the political ‘dark...

From Chiniot to Harvard; the story of a boy from Pakistan

From matriculation in Chiniot and a Bachelors degree in Karachi to Harvard University in USA; my journey has had me attend top institutes in...

What makes ICC investigation of US war crimes in Afghanistan highly sensitive

Britain has joined France and Germany to break with the United States over President Trump’s Executive Order on June 11 authorising economic sanctions against...

Pakistan’s governance structure notorious for delayed decision making

Delaying of decisions to defy needed change is fatal for any country. A well-known proverb says ‘Never put off till tomorrow what you can...

The rocky road of US-Taliban peace agreement

It took the Trump administration 17 months to clinch a preliminary agreement with the Taliban – a first step toward ending more than 18...

Crying over spilt milk: Supreme Court & coronavirus

On the 19th of May 2020, the Supreme Court of Pakistan set aside the Government’s partial economic lockdown claiming that the country should not...

Collaboration must for fighting Pakistan’s locust invasion

Since last year, the desert locust has been posing an unprecedented threat to Pakistan’s agriculture sector, and the response of the government was slow...

India at loss as Indo-Pacific strategy collapses

The past two decades of international policy and regional strategy have been a tremendous challenge for Pakistan. In the aftermath of 9/11, and the...

Good governance, rule of law and the presidential system

Ancient Greek history is full of mythical fables with moral lessons. Pakistan’s dalliance with ‘rule of law’ always makes me recall the Sisyphean ordeal...
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